Many plastic products are designed to be used only once, yet the material itself lasts for years. But a new strategy is addressing this problem by creating products that self-destruct on command, ...

Americans, on average, toss out about three quarters of a pound of plastic each day, according to researchers at Oxford University. Most of that trash winds up in a landfill. As someone who loves ...

My favorites include silicone storage bags, a claypot multicooker, and wooden cutting boards. In our current world, it’s hard to imagine a life without plastic in any way, shape, or form when it’s ...

The team engineered Bacillus subtilis strains to produce two complementary plastic-degrading enzymes. One acts like a random ...